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The temperature got up to 20 degrees Celsius again today but once again the visibility, especially early on, was awful. Nevertheless, after giving the grass at the back of my house a quick cut, I thought that I’d run over to Galinat and see how the airfield is progressing. There was still plenty of water running off the hill lower down as I approached but as I turned onto the lane that runs along the top edge of the airfield, I could see immediately that it looked great.<\/p>\n

The reason was that the local farmer had just finished mowing the runway and apron and he was still there with his tractor parked over on the top corner of the field, so after I’d given 56NE a quick once over, I went over to greet him and have a chat. The people here are so friendly and it doesn’t matter if you don’t speak perfect French because they are always pleased to have a conversation with you and you always manage to communicate together OK. We agreed that the airfield surface is much firmer now and I said that I wouldn’t want to start using it just yet, but that probably it would be fine to start doing so from next week. Then we bade our ‘au revoirs’ and I began to make my way back home.<\/p>\n

On the way I took a couple of pictures of the Chateau de Belcayre on the north side of the river V\u00e9z\u00e8re, which is only clearly visible from the road at this time of year while the trees in front of it are clear of leaves.<\/p>\n

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You can just catch a hint in the above pics, I think, of the ground-hugging haze that was once again pulling down the visibility, so still not much good for flying. When I got home again, rather than mow the front grass, I thought that I’d repair the pull start on my generator. I shouldn’t need it again for quite a while, unless we get any extended power cuts during the summer (unlikely), but I bust the pull cord several weeks ago when I was trying to give the machine a test and hadn’t up to now fitted the replacement that I bought recently at Les Briconautes. The job went well even though the recoil spring jumped out, as usual, and I had to gingerly rewind it, and the machine then started immediately after a couple of pulls. So I then just cleaned the grime off that it had collected from being stood out for the best part of a couple of years and replaced it with a cover over it under the wooden stairs up to my ‘grenier’ at the end of my house.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I think I’ll cut the front grass and make a start on digging out for the concrete base for my planned garden tool shelter. The forecast is for it to be a bit warmer than today, so it could be a hot one \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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